English has Romeo and Juliet to be proud of as a spectacular literary work. Chinese has Sampik Ing-Tai that shows world community that they also have a great romantic story. And Balinese answer for a romantic story is none other than Jayaprana and Layonsari.

Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a family consisted parents and their 4 children. They lived in Kalianget village, North Bali. One day deadly disaster attacked the village. The members of that family dead except the third younger child, named Jayaprana.

He became a motherless and fatherless child. Nonetheless, the King took him to the palace and let him lived at there. Year after year he grew to be a handsome young man. The king forced him to get married soon. One or two force did not change Jayaprana’s mind to realize the king desire. But, after the King forced him so many times he could not avoid it again.

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Amed, a solitary fishing village with black sand beach and mesmerizing sea view, a romantic gate away for honeymooners. Here you can finally find peace and quiet, enjoy great food, inexpensive accommodation, some massage and very few hawkers. Amed not just has a beautiful beach to offer but also one of Bali’s best snorkeling and diving locations. The variety and number of fish in this location is the best on Bali.
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Artful contemporary design enriched with the traditions of the Indonesian archipelago, privileged comfort and tailored service in the most intimate of settings, in the very heart of Bali’s cultural capital, welcome to De Ubud.

Ubud is Bali’s creative epicenter, home to many of the island’s famous artists and writers. Surrounded by stepped rice paddies, the town’s meandering streets are lined with galleries, arts & crafts shops, cafes, restaurants and intricately carved stone temples. De Ubud lies at the very heart of this rich cultural mosaic.

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Armed 12 employees, 28 wood chairs, 6 tables, and modest building Mak Beng will serve your lunch. This restaurant is never visited by only few customers. Approximately 12.00 pm it will be flocked by the people who want to have lunch. No chair is left!

“Mak Beng” is a well-known restaurant that serves you just one set menu. A plate of rice, a hunk of fish completed with hot spicy sauce, and a bowl of fish soup are enough to satisfy the hungery people. With only Rp 22.000 to spend you can taste this Balinese cuisine that sometimes oblige people to stand, waiting for their turn to sit and enjoy their long-waited meals.

Even when you have got your seat, it sometimes takes 30 minutes even more than it. “I have been waiting here for 1 hour, where is my order?” complained a customer. And the waitress answered that the soup was been cooking and asked the customer to wait. Another customer asked her to serve himself only by a hunk of fried fish and rice. Well, restaurant that has many customers should keep the customers comfortable, is not it? (more…)

The village of Kamasan, in Klungkung, Bali’s oldest kingdom, as an ancient tradition of painting with its roots in the art of the great Javanese empire of Majapahit. Kamasan is far from the usual tourist tracks, and so many visitors to Bali get the false impression that Ubud is the centre of art. The art of Kamasan is the ‘classic’ style based on the shadow theatre or wayang, and Kamasan village once included many wayang puppeteers, although few remain. For many centuries that tradition was practised by the Sangging descent group, who gave their name to the section of the village of Kamasan where present-day artists are still found. Early in the nineteenth century the Sangging descent group died out in Kamasan through lack of male heirs, but they passed on their tradition to others in the village, via the most famous artists of that era, Modara.

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Villas Semana - less than 5 km from Ubud, perfect retreat located in ideallic gardens above the sacred Ayung River. Choose from five signature villas, built in true Balinese style. Dine privately, or in the pondok Santai pavillion overlooking pool, river and rice paddies.

Villa Semana features 10 traditional Balinese Villas. Each villa is imbedded into the natural contours ofthe land bordering the sacred Ayung River and overlooking the rice fields and terraces. The Villas aredivided into four categories and each villa has the name of an indigenous flower

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